Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Acknowledgements

hanks
to Peter Lamb, Tom Scharle, Loren Haarsma
and Larry Moran for criticism, comments and suggestions on
an earlier FAQ. This version has benefitted greatly from
further comments and references from Peter Lamb, Chris
Nedin, Richard Harter, Tom Scharle, John Stockwell, Gavin
Wheeler, Mark Isaak, Sverker Johansson and James Franklin,
not all of whom agree with me, I need hardly add.

Bibliography

This is intended to be a reading list.
Introductory and review items are marked with an asterisk.
The bibliographies in these will get you into the meat of
the modern debate very quickly. Access to the journal
Biology and Philosophy will help, too.

By far the best discussion I know (from
an orthodox Protestant perspective) of the development of
creationism, its heretical nature, its antiscientific bent,
and it includes a pretty good discussion of evolution, and
the history of the science. Berry is a professor of
genetics.

A comprehensive history of Darwinism,
philosophical and biological, and an introduction to the
new systems dynamics and complexity theory views of
evolution. The bibliography alone is worth the
purchase.

In addition to reviewing the problems of
cladistics, taxonomy and classification, important in the
question of species and their evolution, this has an
excellent short review of the history of recent philosophy
of science, relevant to evolution.